a collaboration of teachers, administrators, parents, and students, who work together to seek out best practices, test them in the classroom, continuously improve processes, and focus
on results.
What is Professional Learning Community or PLC
100
Focus on Learning; Collaboration and Results
What are the Three Big Ideas?
100
In this setting....if the teacher pushes on with new concepts, the struggling students will fall farther behind
What is Traditional Schools Practices?
100
they should lead from the center rather than the top
What is the Principal?
100
realistic, credible, attractive future for an organization
What is the Campus Vision?
200
quickly identifies students who need additional time and support; provides students with help as soon as they experience difficulty; students to devote extra time and receive additional assistance until they have mastered the necessary concepts.
What is the systematic, timely, and directive intervention program?
200
turning learning and insights into action
What is Action Orientation/Experimentation?
200
considered the engine of a Professional Learning Community
What are Collaborative teams?
200
A focus on outcomes rather than inputs or intentions; hungry for evidence that their efforts are producing the intended outcomes.
What is results /data orientation?
200
Strategic & Specific, Measurable, Attainable Results-oriented, and Timebound
What are SMART goals?
300
designed to provide a final measure to determine if learning goals have been met
What is a Summative Assessment?
300
end results perceived as achievable by those who set them.
What are attainable goals?
300
working interdependently to achieve a common goal
What is a team?
300
shared mission, vision, values, and goals; collaborative culture; collective inquiry; action/orientation/experimentation; commitment to continuous improvement; results orientation
What are 6 Characteristics of a PLC?
300
The fundamental purpose of an organization
What is a Mission?
400
not necessarily congeniality...
What is collaboration?
400
Learning that uses the same instrument, or a
common process utilizing the same criteria, for determining the quality of student work.
What is Common assessment?
400
an abundance of data that do nothing to inform practice because they are not presented in context through the use of relevant comparisons
What is the DRIP syndrome?
400
A systematic schoolwide plan that ensures every student in every course or grade level will receive additional time and support for learning as soon as he or she experiences difficulty in acquiring essential knowledge and skills
What is pyramid of interventions?
400
collective commitments developed by each team to guide
members in working together
What are Team Norms?
500
a key structure and process that must be in place for PLC's to be effective.
What are Common Planning Periods?
500
relentlessly questioning the status quo, seeking new methods of teaching and learning, testing, reflecting on results, challenging beliefs, and coordinating actions...
What is Collective Inquiry?
500
The disconnect between knowledge and action
What is the knowing-doing gap?
500
sharing diverse ideas and making compromises so that all people are satisfied with the direction in which the school is moving
What is "Top-down and bottom-up process" ?
500
what do we want students to learn, how will we know when they've learned it, and what do we do when they don't?
What are the Guiding Questions for Focus on Learning?